Who Is The Narrator In The Black Cat

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"My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events." That is what the narrator in The Black Cat said. Which is one reason why I think that the narrator in the Black Cat is a psychopath. I think that the narrator in the Black Cat for multiple reasons that I'm going to tell you.

The first reason is that he likes animals more than people. And yet he despises other animals other than his cat Pluto. He loved Pluto and Pluto loved him, but then one night he was drunk and when he came home he startled Pluto. When Pluto went to run away because he was startled the narrator went to pet him and Pluto bit him. The narrator said that after Pluto bit him he had the the feeling and adrenaline. Then the narrator said that he had an image of murder. Then the narrator grasped Pluto and took up a knife and then the narrator cut out one of Pluto's eyes. Then after ever since then Pluto has avoided the narrator. Pluto started to really experience the narrator's ill temper.
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When the narrator come close, Pluto flees in terror. Pluto and the narrator didn't have a very good relationship since the eye incident. The narrator was so upset so he went and got drunk again the came home and hung Pluto on a tree from a noose. The narrator was so upset that he went and got drunk again. When he was at the brothel he was thinking about Pluto and he glanced across the room and seen a cat that looked just like Pluto except for a white spot of hair on it's chest. The narrator walked over to the cat to pet it and it seemed to like him. He went to the owner of the brothel and asked him who the cat belongs to and that he wanted to buy it. The owner said that he didn't know of any cat, so the narrator took it home by making it follow him by petting it every so

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